Muharram Takes its name because fighting is prohibited during it. Safar Takes its name from sifr,which means to be empty, because the trails that the Arabs used for travel and business were empty because the sacred months had ended and fighting returned. Rab'l al -Awal Took their names from rab'i al-'ashab (dense gas) because it grew during these two months Jumad al -Awal &

Ibn Al-Qayyim said that “the effectiveness of these surahs is great to repel magic, evil eye, and the rest of the evils and the need for a slave to seek Allah’s protection from these two surahs is greater than his need for self, eating, driking, and wearing dress” (Al-Fawwaid, 2/426)